Example sentences of "be given [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same day , however , it passed a highly controversial law by which all residents of Lithuania would be given certificates of citizenship provided they signed a pledge to uphold Lithuania 's independence constitution . |
| 2 | a lead authority structure — one authority would be given responsibility for water and sewerage services for its own and surrounding areas . |
| 3 | After the Tay floods , calls were made for SEPA to be given responsibility for flood prevention schemes — at present a discretionary duty of regional councils . |
| 4 | A minister will be given responsibility for transport in the capital , including the £750 million upgrading of the Central Line Underground service . |
| 5 | Someone in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors . |
| 6 | Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme . |
| 7 | Applications can be given exposure via Sun 's CD-ROM-based software catalogue distribution scheme . |
| 8 | Mr Will would help on Works , and Miss Hamlet and Dr Alexander would be given instruction in DOS , including the EDLIN text editor . |
| 9 | The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance . |
| 10 | Several swimmers had to be given gulps of oxygen at the pool-side . |
| 11 | erm Yes , certainly , I , I would suggest East and St Clements because they have got quite high ethnic populations , and we can perhaps be hoping to start there , because Environmental Health 's already worked there , targeting some of the multi-occupation properties , so they 've got a very high proportion of black people living there , which means that they 're also quite important in the sense of deprivation , but , I mean , we are also very conscious that we should be working on a council estate , and what we , what I would like to do is to simultaneously be starting working in erm a particular sets of communities , is to be given work in consultation in other wards , so that you know , six months down the line before . |
| 12 | He insisted on the principle of the –subordination of characters ' — some characters were more fundamental than others and should be given pride of place in assessing degrees of relationship . |
| 13 | Lord Donaldson attacked the White Paper 's suggestion that it might be in the public interest to allow other professions , such as accountants , to be given rights of audience in the courts . |
| 14 | Scenes can also be given perspective by colour and shading . |
| 15 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 16 | The allies had to be given opportunities for glory , booty , settlements and trade in conquered lands . |
| 17 | That choirs and music groups be given opportunities in church services to sing and play on their own ( 603–604 ) . |
| 18 | The term ‘ special children ’ immediately brings to mind certain groups of children : those with limited or no sight who can be provided with materials in an appropriate form — books in large print , books to be read with trained finger-tips , books to be heard ; those with hearing impairment who can fully utilize print and picture materials but who may not be given access to music ( the value of such access is demonstrated by the career of the distinguished percussionist Evelyn Glennie ) . |
| 19 | Dhlakama also demanded that members of his movement be given immunity from prosecution or official harassment . |
| 20 | Any respondent to the proposed application is likely to be given notice of hearing of any request for leave . |
| 21 | Primary school children would n't normally be given lessons in robotics until they were several years older . |
| 22 | So much of the job is unpredictable , and a pressing problem or a spate of pollutions or complaints must be given priority over routine sampling . |
| 23 | In its post-World War II Circulars , the Department of Education stated explicitly that the children of working mothers were not to be given priority for nursery education . |
| 24 | If they made a good impression during that brief stay at the University , they would be given priority of consideration for becoming undergraduates when they were demobilised . |
| 25 | All staff who have contact with the public should be given training in customer relations . |
| 26 | Teachers would be trained on an Institution of Environmental Health course and schools would be given booklets on food safety . |
| 27 | prior to ratification there would always be enabling legislation , incorporating by statute those prospective treaty obligations which could not be given effect under prerogative powers , and required changes to domestic common law or statute . |
| 28 | Equally foolish in my view , to return to the central subject of this book , is the insistence by Brian Way that children should be given practice in concentration , for second-order activities are nothing if not absorbing . |